In this paper we investigate the survivability of multilevel ad-hoc groups for critical operations through a case study. We aim to provide a formal trust framework for establishin...
Sensing the state of the environment is an important source for context-aware applications. Several approaches exist to provide sensor information to mobile application nodes. As ...
To address the need for highly configurable and customizable distributed systems, researchers and practitioners are investigating various innovative approaches. One of the promisi...
— Systems are more and more expected to work in dynamic environment, to deal with fluctuation of their characteristics and to guaranty functional and nonfunctional requirements. ...
We present an integrated dual approach to reduce power consumption in infrastructure-mode 802.11 wireless LANs. A novel distributed power control algorithm adaptively adjusts the ...